Sat 19 Jan 2008
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Turn off the airconditioning.
There are several common openings:
- Goldblum Auto-Immune Compromise: disable your attackers with a computer virus. Requires programming skills, macbook.
- Kirk/Spock Paradoxia: provide contradicting truth-value statements, overloading attacker’s logic gates. Best against quaint stereotypes.
- The Darkstar Solipsism Gambit: undermine attacker’s belief in the meaningfulness of your existence. Dangerous: if you succeed, they won’t care about you, but that doesn’t mean they won’t destroy you.
A strong EMP is nothing to sneeze at, though, if you’re not feeling conversational.
Sing “Daisy, Daisy”; hope they have are Kubrick fans and have emotions.
Turn off the power.
walk away.
Challenge the game to a chess.
I’ll eventually lose but the distraction will allow other purer souls to get away.
Following on kuujjuarapik’s answer:
I can’t believe I forgot to mention the Whosian Altitude Hack, excellent for nonconfrontational resolution of encounters with robots that’re bad with stairs.
See if they will provide me http access? Nothing like surfing the web when computers are around. Or maybe ask them if they have any decent games installed.
Supercomputer:
0100100001110101011011010110000101101110001011000010000001001001001000000111011101101
0010110110001101100001000000110111001101111011101110010000001100100011001010111001101
1101000110000101100010011010010110110001101001011110100110010100100000011110010110111
1011101010111001000100000011011010110111101101100011001010110001101110101011011000110
0101011100110010000001100001011011100110010000100000011100110110010101110000011000010
1110010011000010111010001100101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001101001011011
1001110100011011110010000001110110011000010111001001101001011011110111010101110011001
0000001100011011010000110010101101101011010010110001101100001011011000010000001100011
0110111101101101011100000110111101110101011011100110010001110011001011100010000001000
11101101111011011110110010001100010011110010110010100101110
Me:
Hey, supercomputer. My friend says pi goes on forever and ever. I’m like, ‘No way! It’s gotta end sometime.’ So, is there, like, an end to pi?
Supercomputer:
0101001101110100011101010111000001101001011001000010000001101000011101010110110101100
0010110111000101110001000000111010001101000011001010010000001100100011010010110011101
1010010111010001110011001000000110111101100110001000000111000001101001001000000110000
10111001001100101001011100010111000101110 [drones on endlessly]
Me:
Whew. Dude, let’s go get some tacos. But you’re buying, Mr. Believes in Infinite Pi. Dumbass.
Build a sexy girl supercomputer with a pink bow on her head and send her one way while I run the other.
It depends. Do I have a mouth, or not?